site.btaEU Annual Inflation Slows While Bulgaria’s Inflation Continues to Rise

The annual inflation rate in the European Union eased to 2.5% in March 2025, compared to the same month a year earlier, according to Eurostat data published on Wednesday. By contrast, February’s annual rate had stood at 2.7%. In the eurozone, inflation also declined, dropping to 2.2% in March from 2.3% in the previous month.

Bulgaria, however, bucked this trend, posting an increase in its annual inflation rate, which reached 4% in March, up from 3.9% in February. This marks the country’s highest annual inflation rate since 2023, and a month-on-month inflation of 0.3%, according to the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute (NSI).

The NSI’s earlier report showed that Bulgaria’s consumer price index rose by 4% year-on-year and by 0.2% compared to the previous month.

According to Eurostat, annual inflation in March decreased in 16 EU member states, increased in 10, and remained unchanged in one. Among the member states, France (-0.9%), Denmark (-1.4%), and Luxembourg (-1.5%) recorded the lowest rates last month compared to March 2024, while Romania (+5.1%), Hungary (+4.8%), and Poland (+4.4%) posted the highest.